JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME (Vesoul, 1824-Paris, 1904) SNAKE-WATCHER Pencil Signed and captioned right in the middle Stains and insolate The snake wrangler, pencil, signed and captioned, stains and insolated À VUE : 35 x 22 CM - 13,7 x 8,6 IN. Our drawing is a preparatory study for his work "The snake charmer" (1879), a painting in the Clark Art Institute (no. 1955.51). Gérôme opted for a boy in the final version.